Echo
Des Plaines River is a site of new impediments to voracious species
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The project is meant to help prevent catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes fishery.
Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/author/vsukhanovskaya/)
The project is meant to help prevent catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes fishery.
Among the species that newly receive threatened status are the Eastern whip-poor-will, evening grosbeak, golden-winged warbler, Northern goshawk, spruce grouse and upland sandpiper.
Habitat restoration can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of time and the collaborative effort of engineers, scientists and designers. It may be better to just start from scratch.
The idea for the book came from a little notebook into which Dunphy writes what occupies her mind.
Activists from Stop EtO established the nonprofit Lake County Environmental Works and got $270,000 to test the air for EtO.
The heaviest thing that he has found is a full-sized safe in the Rouge River in Delray, Michigan, taking seven people with magnets and hooks to pull it out.
Detroit water rates have gone up 407% over the last 20 years, and 120% in just the last 10 years.
They’re drawn to it because of some personal connection to whether it be the neighborhood they grew up in, the forest they’ve walked in, the lakes [where] they’ve smoked salmon. So it’s a natural thing to tie environmental matters to personal experiences.
Cleaning up and greening the lots helps to reduce violence. That effect improves when the local community is engaged in those activities instead of having the lots professionally mowed
There’s a lot of people out there that, if they had to choose to go into homelessness with or without their pet, they would take that pet with them, because they’re part of their family.